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thanks a million that worked in way in over my head with this stuff

The "Notice" level is just telling you that your pages all have rel=canonical elements on them, and they all seem to be pointing to themselves. This is really just a heads up, and doesn't indicate a problem, per se. As you grow, I think you may want to control how some of your very similar pages are indexed, such as color and quantity variations. These pages can look "thin" to Google, in that they're very similar. Currently, though, your site is small enough that it shouldn't be a big issue, and our notice is the lowest least severe message (notice < warning < error). The rel=canonical element basically tells Google that two URLs are equivalent or very similar, and to only allow one to rank. This helps control duplicates and avoid issues with Panda or having Google filter out pages in unexpected ways.

Hey Donal, Thanks for the question! That message can sometimes come up if there's just a slow response on the initial site validation ping. It can sometimes be indicative of a greater issue, but if you confirm the site is responding to requests and you aren't blocking anything you shouldn't be, then I would just hit continue and it should crawl just fine. I hope that helps. Let me know if you need anything else. Cheers, Joel.